or a preference (Maintain my status message when returning from away)
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),
Travis Harris
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On 5/2/07, Gary Kramlich <grim at reaperworld.com> wrote:
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>> Luke Schierer wrote:
> > On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 01:13:10PM -0700, Sean Egan wrote:
> >> On 5/2/07, Luke Schierer <lschiere at pidgin.im> wrote:
> >>> On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 11:49:36AM -0700, Sean Egan wrote:
> >>>> deryni doesn't remember but recalls it being an "overwhelmingly
> >>>> popular move." I think it was a dumb move. Discuss.
> >>> One of the frequent complaints with the early betas was that you could
> >>> not return from away. In tracing this, we discovered that people
> >>> actually could and were returning from away, they were confused by the
> >>> fact that the status message was preserved. changing this behavior
> >>> fixed this "bug" for significant numbers of users.
> >> Probably more AIM users unable to disassociate "away message" from
> >> "away." /me stops before this turns into another "paper vs. clock"
> >> debate. :)
> >>
> >> The problem with the change is that it makes the behavior I
> >> prefer---status messages distinct from status---inordinately
> >> difficult. You have top copy (explicitly, just highlighting won't do
> >> the trick), the status message, change the status, then paste the
> >> message back.
> >>
> >> The old behavior made it impossibly easy for me, and really trivial
> >> for others (hit delete). Is the concept of an available message really
> >> so confusing to people that this change is warrented?
> >>
> >> -s.
> >
> > Right now you've done an amazing job working to explain our ideas of
> > the removal of the protocol icons. Despite that, we have bug #414,
> > numerous users in #pidgin, several other tickets closed as duplicate,
> > some emails, and some IMs directly to us.
> >
> > I have stated that this behavior caused bug reports in the same order of
> > magnitude.
> >
> > I dislike dealing with this confusion, but I'm willing to do it, if you
> > think it is warrented.
> >
> > Your call.
> >
> > luke
>> Here's a stupid thought. If the only people that want this feature,
> myself included, are all developers, why not just make a #define (or
> - -Dsimple_status, name chosen at random) for it?
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> Gary Kramlich <grim at reaperworld.com>
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